Bewertungen für Pinterest

Pros

Unique Product, Amazing People, Love Brand, Low-Ego Culture, Freedom, Creativity, Internationality, Future Potential, Opportunity to grow, Positive Impact on people's lives all over the world, Sustainability

Kontras

comparably slow hiring process; even more collaboration and sharing across borders

Pros

In theory a very sellable product. Actually really compelling insights about what people are into personally vs the face they put out into the world. Strong hire with Andrea Mallard at CMO.

Kontras

1. Compelling narrative but does not play out in reality for most advertisers, making it actually a hard product to sell. 2. Stagnating growth in US and lack of male audience requires a decent amount of spinning 3. Sales leadership is all over the place, they solve missing revenue goals by endless reorgs, which is leading to mass attrition of sales people. They are highly distractable by the latest big “deal” and... fail do not have a solid plan in place to diversify revenue or focus on the big picture. 4. As a seller, it’s feast or famine. Revenue targets are often irrational leading often based on ambition rather than reality to a demotivated sales force. Compared to competitors, I would say this is one of the worst companies to work for if you like compensation stability. Pinterest is young, but not so young that they should have this much trouble setting realistic goals.

Rat an das Management

Clean house on sales leadership. With a majority female sales force, it’s a shame that much of the senior sales team is male, the imbalance leads to poor optics and awkward conversations. Consider hiring people from companies other than Google. Hire some actual people managers for a change and not just people who like to hear themselves talk. Francoise needs to spend more time with sellers and customers to see the... disconnect between our product and the market needs.

Pros

Great benefits Most people are genuinely nice

Kontras

No standard of excellence Poor behavior isn't curtailed or checked Excessively political for the size of the company Passive aggressive Entitled employees Poor corporate communication

Rat an das Management

- Ben should fire the majority of his execs, their direct reports (a.k.a. dead weight), bring back the Pin-puns, and reinforce the original culture of Pinterest. - Execs and their directs don't uphold the corporate culture themselves much less to to their teams making the cultural values more of a punchline than an actual culture. - Bad behavior and entitlement should not be tolerated (but are completely). In... what other company is it acceptable for employees complain because there was a meatless Monday and they're entitled to a free hot meat entree, complain directly to the SF Health department because a handful of people got sick after a free dinner, and lets not forget the supposed whistle blower who doxxed other employees. Then there are those who complain about their blackout period, because despite all of the literature pushed at them they don't understand why they have a stock blackout period. - Work life is great because getting things done is no longer the order of the day unless you work on Evan or Lawrence's teams. - Good luck finding a supportive manager at Pinterest, most supportive managers have left because they didn't get any support from directs or their own managers (a.k.a. dead weight). - Most people that have been there 5-8 years are probably not doing their jobs anymore (if they ever did them in the first place) - With few exceptions the TPM team should be fired - almost an entire team of deadweight

Pros

Amazing culture, lots of smart people to learn from

Kontras

Growing pains... like any other start-up

Pros

* Some great teams with awesome culture * Fun workplace events * Great work-life balance, if you want it

Kontras

* Some teams are clique-y * Some teams are under a lot more pressure than others * lotta lotta politics to deal with

Pros

Company culture is pretty relaxed. Work hours are very reasonable. Almost nobody has to work at night. Great benefits. Lots of fun activities outside of work.

Kontras

Some teams are not as mature as other teams when it comes to process and technology. Some managers do not have clear vision and strategy of where they want to take their teams.

Rat an das Management

My management team is good but I feel some management teams need to provide clearer vision and strategy for their team and stop changing priority so frequently.

Pros

Pinterest does a few things exceptionally. They develop their people incredibly well, I feel as though I've learned more in 18 months than in my entire previous career. The truly care about their employees, they emphasize work-life balance and allow for people to have lives outside work. They also truly care about their users, making a product that is focused actually improving peoples lives.

Kontras

There are definitely growing pains with a company that's experienced rapid growth. Sometimes feels like upper-level executives don't understand that Pinterest generates revenue by selling ads. Also noticed some people moving up in the company because of their relationships with people rather than there ability or potential to do their job well.

Rat an das Management

Understand how the whole business operates and figure out how to balance users and advertisers to continue to grow revenue. Focus on peoples actual performance in their job to get promotions.

Pros

good vibe and company culture

Kontras

not great work-life balance in general